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Statistics

•1,500,369 domestic abuse related incidents and crimes in England & Wales during 2022. This is an increase of 7.7% compared to previous year.       

Domestic
Abuse

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Domestic violence will affect 1 in 4 women in their lifetime.

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Domestic violence accounts for 16% of all violent crime reported to police.

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Leads to an average of 30 men being murdered a year.

07

Average is 35 assaults per person before they report it to the police.

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Leads to an average of 2 women being murdered each week

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Domestic violence will affect 1 in 6 men in their lifetime

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Has more repeat victims than any other violent crime.

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Approx. 400 people take their own life each year, who have attended hospital for domestic abuse injuries.

* Data collected from iwa.org.uk, ncdv.org.uk, Crown Prosecution Service, Home Office, Ministry of Justice, NSPCC and Office of National Statistics.

We define domestic abuse as an incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening, degrading and violent behaviour, including sexual violence, in the majority of cases by a partner or ex-partner, but also by a family member or carer. It is very common.
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